David Walsh (davidwalsh.name) says:"Many authors write in a way to reinforce that they're the smartest guy in the room. What people like them don't understand is that eager-to-learn developers have already bought the book: they trust that you're the expert, so you don't have to use advanced verbiage to look intelligent. Cody skips that ego-centric exercise, explaining JavaScript concepts in Layman's terms." (source)

Michael Woloszynowicz (www.w2lessons.com) says:"JS Enlightenment does a good job of presenting often confusing concepts in a clear and simple manner that would make future reading more effective and increase the depth of learning. It achieves a good deal of its clarity through a copious use of well documented examples that are simple to understand but provide a great deal of insight into the language. For those already familiar with JavaScript, there's still a lot of value to be had from this book and will serve as an excellent reference if something should slip your mind." (

You’ve been in the tech industry for a number of years, you know HTML and CSS inside-and-out, and you make a good living. But, you have a little voice in the back of your head that keeps whispering, "It’s time for something new, for the next step in your career. You need to learn programming."

Yep, same here.

I’ve served in a variety of roles in the tech industry for close to a decade. I’ve written a bunch of articles on design, coding, HTML, and CSS. Hell, I’ve even written a few books and spoken at conferences around the world. But there’s still that voice that keeps telling me I need to tackle programming; that I’ll never be fulfilled until I learn how to develop my own ideas and projects from scratch. Being a web guy, the obvious language to learn:

I don’t know about y’all, but my family always tells me I’m so hard to buy for. I never feel like that that though. I love art! food! music! tech! bikes! doings things! uhm. candles! One thing tends to actually work though: books.

If someone I know puts an ounce of effort into selecting a book they think I would like, I’ll cherish it. One type of book that I can’t get enough of is books on typography. In a sense, you get double the bang for your buck. A book on typography has no choice but to have incredibly typography itself, so while you read and learn, you get to linger on the typesetting of the book itself. Although I bet that runs counter to what the authors want! They are always saying good typography shouldn’t call attention to itself but get out of the way. Still, in an educational context, I think we can admire safely.

Vue.js is an open source JavaScript framework for building interactive web interfaces. Vue.js was created by Evan You and first released in 2017. Vue.js is the V(View) in MVC(Model–view–controller). Some of Vue.js’s noteable featured include being component based, very fast, lean and extensible core, etc. Vue.js is gaining popularity very fast. In fact, it is one of the fastest growing JavaScript frameworks, as per GitHub. Vue.js developers have seen a meteoric rise in demand, as more and more companies begin using Vue.js. To help you learn Vue.js properly, we’ve listed some of the best Vue.js books, tutorials, courses & videos in 2017.

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Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is one of the fundamental pillars of the web and is what you use to style your code. Being around for so long, there is a plethora of CSS books out, with new ones coming out all the time. This makes the question “What is the best CSS book?” very difficult to answer. Having spent a huge amount of time throughout the years reading various CSS books, these are the best CSS books for learning CSS. Do keep in mind the fact that some of these books may not be up to date, but the concepts and basics should still be applicable. This list of the best CSS books will be updated regularly, so bookmark it and check back!

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